An Indian Dream that was ....
One nation demanding its freedom from the other
and it got that at the cost of its body and soul being carved out ..
A 2 nation theory....
that has resulted in 3 nations so far..
I think English stayed true till the end to their leitmotif ruling policy .. divide and rule
they couldn’t rule anymore but divide they did....
now living in the third nation of this soured dream...
and watching 2 nations play out their games of friendship backhome..
heart is somehow filled with the pain of the stories from past....
pain which we(my people) were spared by virtue of geography... and demographics ...
call it divine timing ...I am reading a book called Husband Of A Fanatic
which is delving deep into these wounds
today when 2 nations owe their existence to the final British atrocity
and other nation convulses with the recurrent spasms of history every now and then...
one wonders ... if Mr. Jinnah is pleased and maybe those Englishmen too,
did they really get what they wanted ?
or did the millions pay with their lives for a horrible, political miscalculation
Amitava Kumar makes a very important point in this book...
he highlights as to how people belong to their homes, their villages...
and not super structure of nations as such...
and specially something that uproots them like nursery plants and replants them somewhere else
Was it more important to be a Pakistani?
Was it more important than being a Muslim as they were?
More so was it more important than being a human being?
We have played the enemies for so long... for political gains of a few ..
now we are playing friends all over again... again for political gains of a few
we are all acting out parts...believing our roles will last long in this act..
we dont know when curtain will come down....
we may never know the next act....
